Which Provider? What Type Of Broadband? Broadband In My Area? !!POST HERE ONLY!!

Mc Love wrote: »

Its 40 a month with Pure for 1Gb for 12 months and they give free install and activation too. Only goes to 79 after a year and you can switch then

If you go with pure or eir or whoever offers a free install.......and after the 14 days cooling off, you are not happy and cancel, will they then change you for the install. Presume they won’t remove a new ONT box anyway.

MarkY91 wrote: »

Tried to get Vodafone but they can't lay down they can't lay down the wires in our flat. There's an existing virgin media set up so that woudo be easy to get up and running but I'm hardly paying €65pm for some broadband.

Does anyone know if puretelecom or anything can use the virgin media wiring?

Nope. Virgin Media are out on their own with no sharing. Loads of networks piggyback off either eir's copper and fibre network or vodafone's fibre SIRO network.

oldmantime wrote: »

Hey,

I'm looking for some advice for broadband, eircom is doing it's customary thing where it knocks off astonishingly regularly and they are about as much use a chocolate teapot when it comes to fixing it so I'm going to move providers, the 2 options I can see at the minute are digiweb metro and vodafone (seeing as I'd like to get unlimited anytime national calls as well). Any information on the contention ratio/reliability of these providers?

Hello. I can tell you about Digiweb's Metro, as I had it here in Naas for several years and I had no issues with it. Broadband speeds and phone service were good. It uses wireless technology (a small radio on your roof which feeds into a modem/router inside). So no phone line required.

If you opt for the Freedom package you get unlimited calls to Ireland & UK landlines & mobiles and up to 30mb broadband. See weblink below.

https://digiweb.ie/metro-broadband/

NIMAN wrote: »

Imagine have a sign up at the end of my rural road, saying superfast broadband is coming soon.

Currently I get 20meg via wireless. We are not in a fibre area.

I called them and gave my Eircode and they said I should be capable of getting the full 150meg speed.
I would be worried about signing a contract to a service which I know little about.

Has anyone any thoughts on Imagine as a company? Are they likely to give me 150meg for 1 week, then drop it off like many of the other providers, with no comeback on my part?

Any thoughts welcome.

review the dedicated thread to them on this forum

tread carefully :pac:

Does anyone have a direct link or phone number for cancellation of an Eir broadband package / account? couldn't find anything on the Eir website and their Chat is turned off.

thanking you

Hi all - moving soon and basically have an option of Virgin for either 500mb at €51/pm or 250mb at €40/pm. It will just be me and the wife - I work from home 2 / 3 days a week (so plenty of Zooms!) and we stream quite a bit.

The techy bit of me wants to pay for the 500mb, but interested in hearing people's thoughts on the suitability of 250mb. Wouldn't be a massive saving, but a saving nonetheless as will be going for Sky separately for TV so it's a bit more expensive when not in a bundle. Also, don't seem to have any other options for high speed broadband out in Glasthule (Sky, Pure Telecom etc are offering me 10mb/15mb!!).

Thanks.

Hi all,
Is there any such thing as a short term broadband/rolling contract these days?
I remember back in the day in college we used to have those dongles things but they don't seem to exist anymore for good or for bad

My current situation is I am am paying for eir at the reduced rate of 30e/month but this is going up to 70 in july, which I am loathe to pay as it barely works as is! However, we should ne moving out of our current accommodation in october to our new build which will have fibre installed, so I'm really just need something to tide us over until then. Partner works from home at moment so has to be somewhat decent.

BopNiblets wrote: »

Had an eir sales guy around recently offering 500MB for €40 a month two year contract, is eir any good, I asked him about the support reputation but he said they've improved (maybe :rolleyes:)

I'm currently on Virgin 250MB for €59 a month, North Kildare, what do you guys reckon?

Eir's network is rock solid.

Because of that you don't have to deal with their support very much.

Eir every time for me.

Folks, to save me reading back over 60 pages, can I pick your brains?

I'm with Virgin, in Dublin, on 360mb broadband. Over the last few months all my devices (firestick, sky, xbox, tablet) will have moments where they can't connect to the network and so I have issues streaming, buffering etc. The router is 5 feet from the devices so it's not an issue with distance. I am out of contract so can switch to whoever I want.

That said - is there a consensus for what is the fastest and most reliable broadband available at the mo? I've read good things about Eir but have always had such bad service whenever dealing with them, it gives me pause. I had a trial with sky about 7 or 8 years ago and it was terrible so I won't go with them. I don't know much about the others in the market. I have also considered just threatening to cancel with Virgin and trying to get a cheap or free upgrade to their 1gb service as perhaps the new modem would not have the same issues I am having with the current on.

Anyone have any advice, pointers or experiences to share with me?

Ta

Hi all. Time to switch FTTH BBand after 12 months with Sky. Don't want to go back to Eir, what are Vodfone like for service and how good is their router. Found eir router slightly better than sky's but not much in it.

Hey folks.

A question I hope some of the wise old heads here can help with?

Currently with Sky on the 500mb fibre deal and coming to the end of my minimum contract.

Planning on moving providers to take advantage of the one big switch deal.

I have a query on the porting process? Is the ONT replaced? Or is it just a matter of forwarding the ONT serial # to the new provider and then service/billing switches automatically?

Is there a need to confirm cancellation? Or is it similar to mobile service in that a port request counts as cancellation?

Would Starlink be better than FTTH

Just to close out my own question if anyone poses similar.

Porting is still handled via UAN and the port request from your new operator ceases billing and generates final bill with your current operator. With the very important exception of moves to or from Virgin Media. Leaving VM you will have to submit canx request, and joining VM you will have to submit canx to current provider.

My initial choice for provider was Vodafone, submitted my port request via Bonkers and had a call back only to find that they wouldn't accept N26 as a payment option over the phone, only Irish accounts. This is IMO a breach of EU banking rules, but VF are satisfied that because they accept EU IBANs in store, that they satisfy requirements.

So cancelled that port and I'm currently waiting on pure telecom to give me a call back.

If I'd only I'd read the last page of this thread before posting I'd have realised that by posting here I'd just be adding to the long list of people on this thread who never get someone to answer their question. Even the guy above me had to answer his own question!